WBC lightweight champion Shakur Stevenson has announced his retirement from boxing on Twitter. The 26-year-old Stevenson didn’t give a specific reason, but he’s clearly upset about stablemate Emanuel Navarrete and Denys Berinchyk fighting for the vacant WBO lightweight belt. ‘Sickening’ and ‘disgusting’ were a couple of the terms he used for that bout.
Promoter Oscar De La Hoya was quick to respond to the news, saying “Congratulations on what you accomplished Shakur Stevenson. Now time to vacate the title. Really enjoyed your career.”
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Boxing is famous for its short-lived retirements. This has all the signs of being one of them.
Great news!!! who wants to watch this clown “fight”.
Yea right! I would bet everything I own plus all that I have including the house and car that this boring clown will be back!
It would be preposterous and ridiculous to take this horrendously boring guy serious. I’m just angry that I will now have to take a sleep remedy instead of getting my Zzzzs when I used to watch his extremely nauseous and boring fights!
So apparently you’re willing to put up $32. 64?
The only time Shakur is a warrior is when he’s beating up women in parking garages. That’s the only time I seen him really spectacular!
Boxing is hit and don’t get hit. Get in the ring and then talk…
Assad, I believe you have a man crush on poor pathetic Shakur.
You probably have a tattoo of his image on your booty that says “this is property of Shakur”
Take me for instance. I don’t like watching usyk fight. so, you know what i do? i DONT WATCH HIM FIGHT. just a suggestion.
What a dumb comparison Usyk and Shakur. Usyk probably 100 X more exciting than Shakur.
Lay off the crack pipe “Fight Fan” and stick to your true love—-> Mens figure skating.
Wouldn’t miss him a bit. Just mad that I will have nothing to fall asleep to. Bye, bye, one brick city.
And of course you are being forced to watch his fights against your will…what damn shame.
No, but just as you have an opinion, so do I. Obviously, my opinion does not coincide with yours; therefore, you feel the need to open your trap. Well, do you feel better? DA.
I am sure when his bank account dwindles some and boredom sets in, he will reconsider coming back.
Obvious tensions in the camp. This “should” be part of an exit strategy. The retirement will depend on whatever contract he has right now and the time required in retirement to make the contract null and void. Just my opinion. That’s the first thing that came to mind.
Yes, seems like it’s a business move rather than a real retirement. Sometimes you have to find the loopholes in contracts.
Well I think nobody wants to risk his money since he is not ticket seller
Thank you Shakur for move aside and let the real boxers fight
If you come back you will be very welcome
There are couple guys I’d like to see you fight
But now nobody want to hire you for a possibly loss money at ticket office
Carlos.
Please do yourself a favor and learn the English language correctly. Every time you post something you are extremely confusing in what you are trying to say.
Ingles sin Barreras” it’s a course you can take to better understand the English language.
Thank you amigo!
Leave Carlos alone, we regulars on here, understand him just fine.
We should be so lucky. One of the least excitimg boxers in history.
Sure…
See him back somewhere between 6months to 3yrs
Yeah kind of like when Teofimo Lopez “retired.”
Shakur th9ught because he beat Valdez he had done enough
And boxing is more than 2-3 years and m9re than 1-2 good fighters beaten
Boxing is constancy, building acareer and legacy through the years
Shakur’s last fight against Edwin De Los Santos was painful to watch……
Yall believe that. That’s the word used when you need to make money by unretiring.
Shakur, who once entered the ring sporting the shirt of a hate group, is probably the least-liked boxing champion in the world!
Obviously you don’t think certain peoples’ lives matter….but more to the point, if he’s so disliked, you never actually had watch him fight. That’s what the remote control is for.
Fight fan: Question: if Tyson fury or bivol or any white fighter entered the ring wearing white lives matter or blue lives matter, you would call them a racist. You can’t have it both ways, DA. So leave your certain lives quote out. Remember this: all lives matter. Then again you already know that, but ignorance is your middle name.
“Sickening” and “Disgusting” are the exact terms that come to mind when thinking about Stevenson’s brand of, ahem, “boxing.” Good riddance I say. But we all know this “retirement” won’t stick. Teofimo Lopez anyone?
still you insist on watching ALL of his fights…smh.
every fighters gets watched once guy ,Im sure they never watched afterwards just like me….overrated.
Please be a man of your word.
Bullishhtt! He is full of ishhhht! At 26, hell run out of money in no time! I doubt he’ll working at popeyes fried chicken joint making minimun wage!
He’s not a house hold name and his last fight was a snorefest. He’ll be back, this Gen-Z snowflake is just seeking attention.
all that talent, his last fight and not wanting to engage and just running around the ring told me he just don’t want to fight or just doesn’t like the contact, who does but thats what you sign up for, we won’t miss him, like so many others would fight like once a year, look at ray leonard, from his debut in feb. 1977, dec. 1979, had around 27 fights, these fighters today have to much time on there hands.
He is a great boxer but I won’t miss him that is for sure.
Did not see the last fight against De Los Santos, so I can’t comment on the boringness, but I did see him whip Valdez, Herring, and Joet Gonzalez and bagged Gonzales’s sister. He beats Loma, Pitbull, and Navarette, IMO. I’d rather be right than liked, and Shakur Stevenson is a damn good fighter, and you haters know it. Stop it. Facts!
That remains to be seen if he could beat Loma, Cruz, and navarette. He might lull them to sleep first and not with his fists. No hate, we just don’t appreciate, his boring style.
DMV,
They’ll love him if he starts slurring from head trauma like one of their face first slugger heroes. He can be boring, true, but he is also undefeated and thorough. These fans need to get over it, the era of Leonard, Hearns, Duran, and Hagler is over.. long over.. appreciate the new/current talent or stop watching and talking about guys who retired 3, 4 and 5 decades ago.
Hands,
Please get over it ladyboy. If someone sings praises to the boxers of the past it’s because they were just built different back then much more cajones from the boxers of the past than these chicken shit boxers today like that pathetic clown Shakur. So please get his nut sack out of your mouth already sunshine!
DMV. You sound extremely feminine like you probably be looking at Shakur in an inappropriate way with pure lust of the flesh.
Listen Ladyboy this is not the forum to be posting your feminine inappropriate thoughts!
Keep your perverted thoughts to yourself sunshine!
Poor Victor just outted himself with his series of strange and emotionally charged comments on this thread.. a hater with an overt phallic fixation.. to each his own.. don’t worry Victor, what happens in this thread stays in this thread..
Which is more likely? He stays out of the ring or he stays out of jail?
I am 100% sure Stevenson will later return to action with a Kool*Aid smile. De Los Santos is nooooo joke, and he will always give Stevenson major ring problems.
During Stevenson’s departure, I hope he stays in the gym and be aware of the dinner table. Last, while outside the ring, Stevenson better keep it simple (or else trouble will follow).
Shakur vs Loma!
Retire or continue, either prospect would generate the same level of excitement for boxing fans.
Well this certainly seems permanent and legit.
Killa King, precisely why he’s “retiring”, he can’t get the right guys in the ring. Come on, he’s not that boring. They say Willie Pep was so good, he once won a round without throwing a punch; but Shakur has to fight like a Gorilla (no disrespect to John Ryder). A lot of folks on here, don’t like “him”, not his style, so they protect their anger and hate. The best always go through bullshit, that’s the way life works. If he gets Loma or Cruz, than maybe we get an exciting fight.
Well, I speak for myself DMV and I don’t like his style at all. I don’t like things he has said, worn, done, etc., but that’s me. It ain’t hate. He has skills, no doubt. I don’t think you get the Olympics and medal being lame. You know and I know, he is not retired.
i see this stevensen oing something similar to Katt williams where he creates meiea hype of hs name because simply people have forgotten who they were hahahahahaha he will NOT stay retired he dont have enough money to last a year if that i bet
Shakur please prove all these haters wrong and return sooner, we miss your boring asS!
And if Usyk was b***k, you’d be his biggest Fightfan. You’re proud to be racist. We get it. As long as you feel empowered.
Seems like a fair percentage of comments in here don’t like “boxing” but just slugfest fights between ” bangers”
Well may I suggest you switch to MMA for your entertainment.
Gary, there is a difference between the sweet science and Shakur. He has all the potential to be the boxer you say and still please the crowd. If he continues like his last fight, a poor show that had very little action if at all then he will continue to hear these remarks. Just the facts, my man.
Every boxer/ fighter can have an ” off” night sometime,,,,the fellow might be boring,,,but he is winning.
Young boxer that isn’t aware of the well-traveled road of the professional pugilist! It can be compared to a person addicted to pills, and the dealer keeps raising the price over-and-over until at last the person loudly proclaims, “This is the last time! If he raises it again, I QUIT!!!”
GOOD RIDDANCE!!! WHO CARES!!!
This clown got a 90:10 split in his favour ordered by the WBO in his first title shot. And NOW he’s suddenly learning that sanctioning bodies can be bought and sold?
The latinos are p….d because he beat up their doper Valdez, and that Mex racist who is the brother of Stevenson baby mother. But I don’t feel sorry for Stevenson, him, Crawford and Anderson are stupid for signing with Top Rank. They would be much better off especially finansielly, if they had signed with PBC or Matchroom. No black fighter makes money with Top Rank or Golden Boys.
Oscar needs to put a filter on. He thinks he’s funny and smart…… But he lacks sense.
Does anybody believe this?
Man the comments on here are pathetic!
Shakur is a very good fighter, I hope he comes back soon.
I also hope he learned from his last fight. People were actually leaving the arena during the fight because it was that bad.